Heroes: a powerfully moving view of recent world history

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	• Heroes John Pilger South End Press, 2002 - 656 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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Gut-wrenching

Further down, someone - presumably dissatisfied by the fact that John Pilger doesn't try to explain away the crimes of Western politicians as acts of historical necessity - referred to the author's "monumental left-wing bias". Indeed. Pilger is heavily biased, there is no doubt about that. Pilger is biased in favour of the innocent, the harmless, the poor, and the victims of atrocity. This unfortunate bias certainly distorts everything he writes, making it impossible for him to sneak in the self-serving excuses of the Western pigs who have benefitted from decades of brutality and oppression which they have either directly perpetrated or had perpetrated on their behalf by their paid minions and stooges.

The section dealing with Cambodia is particularly harrowing, and I spent a great deal of time alternating between tears and vituperation as I read it. What I like most about Pilger's journalism is that he relies, for the most part, on quotes from officials and from official documents, allowing the anti-human pigs who run the world to indict themselves with their own utterances. It is shocking, almost mind-boggling, to conceive that such despicable, black-hearted, savage scum are sitting at the top of the world's food-chain, merrily cannibalising the human race to feather their own sordid little nests.

Pilger is, in many ways, the successor to Orwell (I mean Orwell's non-fiction). He writes clearly, with purpose, and without hyperbole, simply stating the facts and allowing them to reveal the truth without the need for vitriol or dissimulation. The effect is much more distressing and gut-wrenching than any amount of rote left-wing activism could ever be.

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Stimulate your Conscience

You can't deny that John Pilger has witnessed more than his fair share of social injustice, abuse of power and bloodshed on a variety of continents and he covers many in this excellent collection of essays. Unlike so many of today's journalists, he's actually put in the leg-work and been to these events and seen first hand what's going on (rather than re-hash second-hand reports), so he knows what he's talking about. His reporting is accurate and well researched and he regularly challenges the accepted norm: in this fine book, he really does make you stop and think about the folly of current World leaders who time and again fail to learn from past mistakes.

You can only wonder why they don't take the time to understand the consequences of their decisions, (made behind closed doors in comfortable surroundings), on innocent people and in our names....whether we're talking about wars and armed conflicts or shady political and financial deals. A great read and one that should be on everyone's bookshelves, it'll leave you wondering who the real problem countries and people are, especially in the current World climate.

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Heroes: a powerfully moving view of recent world history

This book describes Pilger's interpretation of some of the most significant and tragic world events of the last forty years, but instead of focussing on presidents, generals and politicians, Pilger's account is told as it ought to be, through the lives of ordinary people, unfortunate enough to be caught up in extraordinary and sometimes horrific situations. It serves as a reminder that no human being in the world is any more or less important than any other human being - something which world leaders apparently need to be reminded of.

Heroes

This is one of the most wonderful books I have ever read. It is informative and interesting. It gives a wonderful first-hand telling of some of the most important events of the past four decades.

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"Pilger is the closest thing we have to the great correspondents of the 1930s. The truth in his hands is a weapon, to be picked up and used in the struggle against injustice."?The Guardian

In Heroes, the first of his trilogy of books that includes "Distant Voices and Hidden Agendas," John Pilger collects his most important writing on the Vietnam War, U.S. politics, Palestine, and the role of committed journalism. Heroes takes us to the front lines of numerous struggles for social justice around the world. Pilger looks at history from the standpoint of ordinary people and those whose stories are rarely heard in the mainstream media, whether the victims of U.S. napalm bombs in Vietnam, those suffering from the ongoing legacy of colonialism in Africa, or the civilians facing bombing in Iraq today.

"Each chapter," Pilger writes in a new Introduction, "tries to make sense of events that have touched and influenced many lives, not least my own."

John Pilger is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning journalist, documentary film maker, and author. Born in Australia and based in London, his audience?and subject matter?are truly international. "He is a photographer using words instead of a camera," says Salman Rushdie. He writes regularly for The Daily Mirror, The Guardian, The Nation, and the New Statesman, and is a ZNet Commentator.

Pilger?s Awards include: Campaigning Journalist of the Year (1977), Journalist of the Year (1979), The George Foster Peabody Award (1990), the American Television Academy Award ("Emmy") Award (1991), and the 1995 International de Television Award.

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